Two Traditions Meet Head to Head

Updated Oct. 3, 2000 4:14 p.m. ET

Two Traditions Meet Head to Head

Two traditions intersected this weekend as OTBN II fell smack in the middle of the Joslin-Sanford Take The Families to OSU Football Weekend! The two families, friends since Debbie and Ann began working at Merrill Lynch 23 years ago, spent an idyllic football Saturday in Columbus, Ohio under sunny skies and then returned to Ann's country home in rural SE Ohio.

The evening of great wine "kicked off" with a Murphy-Goode 1996 Reserve Chardonnay while watching the sunset from the...